or transferred, leaving just three students for the final year and a number of the remaining staff.
=== Ave Maria campus ===
The university moved from the temporary facility to the new campus in 2007. In its first year at the new campus, the university enrolled about 450 undergraduates and 150 graduate students. Frank Dewane, the Bishop of Venice in Florida, formally dedicated the university in 2008.
In March 2007, Monaghan dismissed the university's original provost, Joseph Fessio because of what Monaghan described as "irreconcilable differences over administrative policies and practices". Immediately, the school's first-ever student protests were mounted in support of Fessio. Outside observers were critical: editor Philip F. Lawler of the conservative Catholic World News said the firing was "institutional suicide", and that if a respected theologian such as Fessio could be fired then no others would want to fill the position. Monaghan reinstated Fessio the next day as theologian-in-residence. He was dismissed …
